Example sentences of "and [verb] itself [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he did not wait for a reply before throwing himself to one side as a sabre whistled down and buried itself deep in the brickwork of the window sill where he had been sitting . |
| 2 | Shiona felt her heart perform a triple somersault and lodge itself somewhere in the region of her throat . |
| 3 | Then , when the heated tyre gradually cooled , it contracted and drew the joints together and bedded itself firmly round the woodwork . |
| 4 | Love is like the perfect pearl of the sea , but more precious , a pearl of the transcendent ; it did not come from the earth but from the pollen of the stars and sowed itself here like the seeds of the palms . |
| 5 | Sitting where he was , a bullet fired into the back of his neck might pass through and embed itself somewhere in the brickwork above the stove . |
| 6 | As the oxygen is bound the iron shrinks in size and buries itself further in the porphyrin . |